Our Privacy Policy

Further information about Personal Data

 

Selling goods and services online
The Personal Data collected are used to provide the User with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery.
The Personal Data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of Data collected by this Application depends on the payment system used.
 

Contact information

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Owner and Data Controller

Quilt India Foundation

A12, F1, MGS Villa

2nd Avenue, Thiruvalluvar Nagar

Chennai

INDIA 600041

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Owner contact email: contact@indiaquiltfestival.com

 

 

Information Collection

We collect information during registration, subscription, use of the site, communicating with site members, admin, using content, content upload to our site. We also receive information about your IP address, cookies and pages you visited. We use your information held about you in the following ways:

1. To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; and facilitate transactions with you;

2. To provide you with information that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;

3. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us; and comply with applicable law if any in this regard;

4. To notify you about changes to our service. products and services and also to carry our further research and analysis for monitoring/ reviewing/ improving/ providing our products and services and selection of offers, promotions and marketing campaigns;

5. To verify your identity for us to provide products/services to you and to respond to your queries or feedback submitted by you;

6. To provide your personal information to our affiliates/ other trusted businesses/ persons/ service providers engaged by us, or institutions that we partner with, to assist us with providing you with products/services to better serve your needs and interests, based on your instructions and in compliance with our privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

 

 

Information Sharing

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We will always obtain your prior specific consent before we share or disclose your personally identifiable information to any partner, and user. We are also accountable to disclose user information and the contents of the Accounts to the local law enforcement authorities under specifically defined circumstances. In case India International Quilt Festival service gets merged or acquired, we will be informing on the website about such developments.

In case your profile is public, or your details are in public domain in our site, you will receive unsolicited messages from users in indiaquiltfestival.com and from external sources.

When you have opted for receiving related information, we will use your information to show you relevant content, events from us and our partners. Access to your name, email address and private details is restricted to our employees who need to know such information in connection with our services and are bound by confidentiality obligations.

 

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small piece of text file/ information stored by a web server on a web browser/ your device about your visit on our online platforms so it can be later read back from that browser. Cookies allow us to recognize a specific device in order to personalize and optimize your experience. We may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered. No personally identifiable information will be collected via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided Information, cookies may be tied to such information. We use 'session' cookies for a browser session, we also store cookies in your computer to access your login information, and preferences. We use cookies to enhance your experience of our services.

If you wish to change or opt out of interest-based advertising on our website, set your preferences appropriately by clicking “Cookie Settings”. Our online services may also contain cookies that allow you to connect with social media networks. Also, most web browsers allow individuals to indicate cookie preferences and block, limit, or delete cookies at the browser level. Instructions on controlling these preferences should be available in each browser’s help documentation. Note that certain online services, products, features, or functions may not be available if cookies are limited or disabled on your browser or device.

 

Web Beacons

Web beacons are small graphic images that may be included on our websites or other products. Web beacons help us optimize our products and services and provide us and our third-party partners with analytics information, such as how many visitors a site receives. We may also use web beacons to measure response to email campaigns. Web beacons are also commonly known as “clear GIFs” or “tags”.

 

Other Technologies

We may also use e-tags, javascript, and local storage objects. These technologies do not collect information that can be used to identify you, but may collect and store content information and preferences and visitor behaviour.

 

IP Address

When you visit indiaquiltfestival.com, we receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, operating system information, browser information and name of your ISP. This information is used to improve our service offerings, we are also legally accountable to pass the same information to legal authorities when requested. We also use advanced web analytics, which provides information such as the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going.

 

Links from Our Website

We may have pages containing external link. These include artcall.org for Quilt Show registration. You are advised to verify the privacy practices of such externally linked websites.

 

How Secure is Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information, username, password, transaction information and data stored in your Account.

Our employees also sign confidentiality agreements to use your data for product enhancement, bug fixes and for services only.

 

Notification of Changes

When there are significant changes to the privacy policy, the same will be posted on our websites in order to keep you informed of any changes in nature of information collected, manner of collection, use and sharing of information.

 

Conflicts Between Privacy Policy & Terms

At any time, when there is a conflict between the terms of service and the privacy policy, the Terms shall control.

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Information Policy

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1. Information Collected From All Users : Information you provide to us: For all Users, we collect Personal Data when you voluntarily provide such information to the Services, such as when you register for competition, workshops, lectures or stalls,  contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys or browse or use certain parts of the Services. The Personal Data we may collect includes without limitation your name, address, email address and any other information that you choose to provide and/or that enables Users to be personally identified. Information we automatically collect: We also automatically collect certain technical data that is sent to us from the computer, mobile device and/or browser through which you access the Services ("Automatic Data"). Automatic Data, includes without limitation, a unique identifier associated with your access device and/or browser (including, for example, your Internet Protocol (IP) address) characteristics about your access device and/or browser, statistics on your activities on the Services, information about how you came to the Services and data collected through Cookies, Pixel Tags, Local Shared Objects, Web Storage and other similar technologies. When you register for the Services or otherwise submit Personal Data to us, we may associate other Non-Personal Data (including Non-Personal Data we collect from third parties) with your Personal Data. At such instance, we will treat any such combined data as your Personal Data until such time as it can no longer be associated with you or used to identify you.

2. How We Use Your Personal Data : We collect and use the Personal Data we collect in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy, and applicable privacy laws. We may use Personal Data as follows:

   • Specific Reason : If you provide Personal Data for a certain purpose, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the purpose for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem and will respond to the email address from which the contact came.

   • Access and use : if you provide personal data in order to obtain access to or use of the services or any functionality thereof, we will use your personal data to provide you with access to or use of the services or functionality and to analyze your use of such services or functionality. For instance, if you supply personal data relating to your identity or qualifications to use certain portions of the services, we will use that information to make a decision as to granting you access to use such services and to assess your ongoing qualification to use such services.

   • Internal business purposes : we may use your personal data for internal business purposes, including without limitation, to help us improve the content and functionality of the services, to better understand our users, to improve the services, to protect against, identify or address wrongdoing, to enforce our terms of service, to manage your account and provide you with customer service, and to generally manage the services and our business.

3. ​How you can access, update, correct or delete your personal data: you can request access to some of your personal data being stored by us. You can also ask us to correct, update or delete any inaccurate personal data that we process about them. If you initiate a data deletion request, India international quilt festival is authorized to delete or anonymize your personal data from the services even if that means removing your availability of our services. However,  you understand that even if India international quilt festival deletes or anonymizes your personal data upon your request or pursuant to this policy, your personal data may still be available in the partner’s own databases if transmitted to the partner prior to India International Quilt Festival receiving or taking action on any deletion or anonymization activity. We will consider and respond to all requests in accordance with applicable law.

4. How long we retain your personal data: we may retain your personal data as long as you are registered to use the services. You may close your account by contacting us. However, we may retain personal data for an additional period as is permitted or required under applicable laws. Even if we delete your personal data it may persist on backup or archival media for an additional period of time for legal, tax or regulatory reasons or for legitimate and lawful business purposes.

5. Changes to our privacy policy & cookie settings: Any changes we may make to our privacy policy and cookie settings in the future will be notified through and posted on, this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

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By accepting India International Quilt Festival’s Privacy & Terms, you also adhere to Google's Privacy & Terms.

 

For more information, read here

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Latest update: 24 September, 2020

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